BHoP#334 A Brief Christmas Part 1 - Thy Lowly Shrine

Dr Adam Koontz reads various Christmas poems.
 
Christmas Day by John Keble
A New Christmas Carol by Arthur Machen
A Letter from Santa Claus by Mark Twain
The Christmas Tree by Robert William Service
Journey of the Magi by T. S. Eliot
A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
 
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Brief#32 Preferable Pronouns

Dr Adam Koontz talks about withstanding the pressure to declare your pronouns and use those that others insist upon in work and in your family, and why acquiescing actually harms your ability to be a faithful witness to the truth.
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BHoP#333 Appalachistan Is Just a Meme

Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about Appalachia, how dependence on government support hurts a people, and people lose can their dignity even while leaving poverty.
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BHoP#332 Church Polity in Christ's Way

Dr Adam Koontz speaks at the Chemnitz Conference 2025 about the scriptural model of the church, Jerusalem in the book of Acts, and how human traditions are increased while divine commands are diminished.
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Dr Adam Koontz - Redeemer Lutheran Church
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BHoP#331 Listener Questions on Inviting People to Church, Confronting Sin, and Ecumenism

Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills answer listener emails about how to bring those living in sin into the church, how to talk to your family who have fallen away from the faith, and whether recent developments in the Catholic church are movements toward ecumenism.
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BHoP#330 Lutheran Identity, Church History, and Discipleship

Dr Adam Koontz talks to Charlie of the Gird Up podcast about his journey to the Lutheran church, studying the scriptures with your family, and the work of a pastor.
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Dr Adam Koontz - Redeemer Lutheran Church
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BHoP#329 Spiritual Discipline

Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about disciplining the self, training in righteousness, and studying the Scriptures.
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BHoP Classics - Thanksgiving

In this special Thanksgiving episode Dr Koontz reads selections from various accounts and poems relating to Thanksgiving and Armistice Day (now known as Veteran's Day) and gives us meditations on Thanksgiving, and on surviving in dark times as the pilgrims who founded the holiday did. Readings:
The Life of Saint Martin of Tours
"Martin's Tide" by William Barnes
Poetry of World War I
      "Peace" by Rupert Brooke
      "The Dead" by Rupert Brooke
      "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae
      "And There Was a Great Calm" by Thomas Hardy
Thanksgiving proclamation and stories from the Pilgrims
"The Harvest Moon" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Thanksgiving Turkey"  by George Parsons Lathrop
 
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Dr Adam Koontz - Redeemer Lutheran Church
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Brief#31 How to Pray with Your Family

Dr Adam Koontz talks about leading your family in prayer and how the roles of husband and wife relate to life in the scriptures.
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BHoP#328 Historical Revision and Why Japan Attacked

Dr Adam Koontz and Col Willie Grills talk about why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Communist influence in America, and understanding history without the filter of modern consensus.
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